A teacher reads text with students, models summarizing the text, predicting what might come next, and then scaffolds the students to do the same. The instruction is best described as an example of
a. direct instruction.
b. Piagetian constructivism.
c. reciprocal teaching.
d. distributed cognition.
ANSWER: c
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